fulminate
/ˈfʌlmɪneɪt//ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/
fulminate verb: to make a verbal attack.
Verb
fulminate (third-person singular simple present fulminates, present participle fulminating, simple past and past participle fulminated)
- To make a verbal attack.
- In short, the criticism which the great lexicographer fulminated against an unfortunate author, seems to have been adopted by the profession as applicable to everything under the sun […]1855, William Neilson, Mesmerism in its relation to health and disease, page 46
- To be sure, Trump has fulminated on Twitter against the judges who rebuffed him. But his tirades have earned him a reprimand––if a brief, vague one––from his own Supreme Court nominee.2017 February 15, Peter Beinart, “American Institutions Are Fighting Back Against Trump”, in The Atlantic
- To issue as a denunciation.
- They fulminated the most hostile of all decrees.1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Cicero”, in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
- While they were the opposition, Democrats fulminated that the Republicans were so deep in the pockets of Big Pharma that they wouldn’t even let the government negotiate lower drug prices.2007 January 21, David Brooks, “Mr. Chips Goes to Congress”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
- To thunder or make a loud noise.
- To strike with lightning; to cause to explode.
- the present owners couldn't afford the electric bills anymore, several amateur gaffers, sad to say, having already been fulminated trying to bootleg power in off the municipal lines.2009, Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice, Vintage, published 2010, page 235
- to act as lightning, appearing quickly and destructively
Noun
fulminate (plural fulminates)
- Any salt or ester of fulminic acid, mostly explosive.
- On 19 February a jubilant Bigeard announced that his 3rd R.P.C. had seized eighty-seven bombs, seventy kilos of explosive, 5,120 fulminate of mercury detonators, 309 electric detonators, etc.1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York: Review Books, published 2006, page 193
fulminate meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam
fulminate in Tamil
- சட்டென வெடித்தல், பல்மினேற்று, மிரட்டு, கடுமையாகக் கண்டி, குமுறு, சாபமிடு
fulminate in Urdu
- گرجنا, کڑکنا, دھماکا کرنا, گرجانا
fulminate in Bengali
- তীব্র নিন্দা করা, গর্জে ওঠা, ফেটে পড়া
fulminate in Malayalam
- rage, protest, rail
- പൊട്ടിത്തെറിക്കുക, ശക്തമായി പ്രതിഷേധിക്കുക, ഗർജ്ജിച്ചു പറയുക, ഖണ്ഡിക്കുക, നിഷ്കർഷിക്കുക, എതിർപ്പു പ്രകടിപ്പിക്കുക
More languagesFewer languages
- fulminate in Kannada
- ಸಿಡಿ, ಹೊರಚಿಮ್ಮು, ಬೊಬ್ಬಿರಿದು ಬಯ್ಯು
Synonyms of fulminate
Forms of fulminate
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | fulminates |
| present participle | fulminating |
| past participle | fulminated |
| past | fulminated |
| Noun | |
| plural | fulminates |
Origin of fulminate
Inherited from Middle English fulminaten, borrowed from Latin fulminātus, perfect passive participle of fulminō (“to lighten, hurl or strike with lightning”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from fulmen (“lightning which strikes and sets on fire, thunderbolt”), from earlier *fulgmen, *fulgimen, from fulgeō, fulgō (“flash, lighten”). Doublet of fulmine. More at fulgent.
From fulminic acid + -ate (“salt or ester”). By surface analysis, fulmine + -ate.
Words formed from fulminate
Questions about fulminate
- What does fulminate mean?
- Fulminate means to make a verbal attack.
- What is fulminate in Tamil?
- Fulminate in Tamil is சட்டென வெடித்தல், பல்மினேற்று, மிரட்டு. See Fulminate meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is fulminate?
- Fulminate can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce fulminate?
- Fulminate is pronounced /ˈfʌlmɪneɪt/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of fulminate?
- The past tense of fulminate is fulminated.
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